A/N: Starting up a new series abandoning my old one, because I wanted to start fresh. With some new ideas in my head, I have a special series planned for you all. –DSW

Disclaimer: I don't own SVTFOE, all though I will time to time take out some scenes time to time

Beta Read by Nightime Silence

(Marco's POV)

"Hey! Watch it!" I exclaimed as I rubbed the back of my head. I could feel a bruise starting to form there. I would need to ice it before I went to bed. "Is it that hard to knock this apple off my head?"

I was completely irritated of this so-called "practice". So far all Star had managed to do was give me a slight concussion, as well as break the neighbor's window. "Marco! Hold still; it's because you're moving I keep missing!" Star exclaimed.

I just sighed and tried to hold as still as possible. All was silent for a little too long as I started to wonder what the holdup was.

"Star," I complained, "What's taking so long?"

"Marco, shush! I'm trying to concentrate." Star said. I took a deep, calm breath, looking at my hands which were shaking with fear.

"A-am I scared?" I asked myself feeling self-doubt. I tried to push these unknown feelings away, wondering where they came from. I took another breath, this one sharper than my last. "Star would never hurt me on purpose." I stated firmly.

"Pain . . . suffering . . . betrayal," an unfamiliar voice whispered in my head. I froze as still as a statue, not daring to move a muscle.

"W-w-who are you?" I barely managed to squeak out. I started to break out into a nervous sweat.

"WHO AM I?" the voice bellowed into my head. I dropped to my knees as the voice let out an ear-piercing shriek, the sound seemed to vibrate back and forth into my skull, forcing my eyes to shake and teeth to rattle. " I AM THE ONE WHO WAS FORGOTTEN, LEFT BEHIND; BECAUSE OF YOU!

"Aghhh!" I screamed, holding my head in my hands. "Please stop!" I sobbed uncontrollably as the pain intensified. I felt as if my head was going to pop! "What do you want!" I screamed unable to handle the pain much long.

The mysterious voice seemed to stop and ponder my question. "Well, Marco Diaz," he mused. "What I would just love is . . . VENGEANCE!" the voice said in a skull shattering yell.

Upon hearing those words, my knees buckled and my vision swam. My head felt as if it was being smashed against a brick wall over and over. I started to go numb as my body couldn't take the pain anymore. All my systems were shutting down, little I could do about as I slowly swayed from side to side. "This is it," I muttered to myself, knowing my body was shutting itself down. I started to flashback to my life.

I panicked as I couldn't remember my own life; the only thing I could remember was up to when Star joined the family. "My life was a complete mess without Star." I said with realization. "I lived a bland, boring life; without her I would still be a total train wreck . . .

"STAR!" I screamed. "I can't die now!" I screamed until my voice was hoarse. "I-I can't die now . . ." My voice was fading away softly as I grew weaker and weaker. At this point I was only capable of producing tears, fresh hot liquid pouring from my eyes, traveling down my cheek and past my mole and onto the floor of oblivion.

"You're puny." The voice dripped with utter disgust. "A complete failure, an outcast, a deadbeat, you were never nothing!"The voice growled softly, "Alas, I start to lose my grip on your soul, but don't worry, Marco Diaz," the voice said coolly as it calmly stated, "I will be back."

I woke up to a panicked voice screaming my name. "MARCO! MARCO! NO, YOU CAN'T BE DEAD!" Star sobbed. Giving up, she lay across my presumed dead body and sobbed onto my shoulder.

My voice unsteady and shaky, I tried to talk. "S-star," I managed to cough out. She looked at my face in bewilderment, and in that moment my eyes locked onto her eyes and time seemed to slow down.

Looking at her tear-streaked face, disheveled blonde hair, crooked headband, and red swollen eyes she never looked more beautiful at the moment.

Our eyes locked and I couldn't tear them away. "Star . . . I'm not dead." I said softly, my voice barely louder than a whisper. "Oh my god, Marco I thought I lost you forever!" She sniffled.

"Are you ok?" she said, pulling me into a tight embrace and we hugged for what felt like eternity, but I certainly didn't mind.

When we finally broke our hug she asked me what had happened. I lay back down and looked at the clear, jet blue sky for a moment. I opened my mouth then paused, not sure where to start. "From the beginning, duh, Marco." I said to myself. Then I sat up and began to tell Star what had happened.

(Star's POV)

I nodded my head numbly as Marco told me his story. I noticed multiple times during this, as he finished his story, I'd watched him slowly wrap his arms around his knees and stare at me with a blank expression. His eyes no longer looked calm and collected; they had the look of a caged animal. A wild look in his eyes, haunted expression hanging on his face like a mask. I have never seen this side of Marco; it scared me.

"Star?" He asked, trying to get my attention.

I snapped back to reality, "Sorry, was lost in my own thoughts."

"I can't trust my thoughts." Marco said darkly.

"Do you want to know what happened from my perspective?" I asked him carefully, not wanting to send him back to his haunted persona.

"Sure." He said eerily calm that sent shivers down my back.

"So basically . . . you screamed and just stopped moving." I said.

"That doesn't sound too bad, " he said with a small frown.

"Let me finish, Marco." I licked my lips, not sure of the best way to say this next part.

"Just tell me, Star!" he said exaggeratedly.

"Fine!" I snapped, "your heart stopped beating."

Marco looked at me with his eyes widening. We stayed in silence for a few minutes and I could hear his soft breathing as he tried to process that. "For how long?" Marco asked.

"Uhhh," I said trying to recollect how long it had been. "Well, at first I wasn't checking your heartbeat. I thought you were messing with me at first." I said. I took a shaky breath, trying to calm down and will myself to continue. "Five minutes . . . your heart stopped for five minutes." I said slowly. "You kept shaking and shaking, like you had a seizure."

I bit the bottom of my lip to stop myself from crying. I bit too hard and my lip started bleeding, Damn it, I thought.

Marco squinted his eyes and looked at me strangely, "And what did you do to help me?" he said, his voice dangerously low.

I stared at him confused. Where did this sudden emotion erupt from? "I went searching through my book of spells looking for a revival spell." I said.

"Did-you-use-it-on-me?" Marco said each word deliberately. I couldn't look him in the eye, I hung my head down in shame, my hair covering my face like a thick curtain. "No." I said in a small voice.

"And why not?" he said barely keeping his voice under control. I wish I could have disappeared right then and there.

"I didn't know how to cast it." I said in a voice smaller than my last.

"YOU NEVER TAKE ANYTHING SERIOUSLY!" He ferociously yelled. "MAYBE IF YOU HAD PAYED ATTENTION DURING YOUR CLASSES YOU COULD HAVE SAVED ME FROM WHAT I WENT THROUGH!" He looked at me sadly, "You're a bad friend and an even worse spell caster." With that he got up and tromped angrily towards the house.

I sat there barely holding back my tears, yet some still came through. Out they came, one-by-one down my eye, slipping past my nose and dropping onto the ground. "I really Star'd this one up, didn't I?" I murmured to myself sadly.

I got up and dreaded my walk home. As I got to the house, wanting to avoid Marco, I quickly ran upstairs, my shoes squeaking on every step. I slammed my door shut and fell on my bed.

I screamed into my pillow, asking myself the same thing over and over. What's wrong with me? over and over. I turned around in my bed and sighed. "I'm at an all time low . . ." and with that said, I fell asleep.

A/N: Chapter completed. I would love some feedback, was this chapter too short? Want me to make them longer? A rating from 1-10 would be great, along with some constructive criticism on what I need to work on. I'll see you guys when Chapter 2 rolls around.